Thursday, August 28, 2014

This past April we posted a story concerning the efforts of Immigration Watch Canada to draw attention to what they claim as a "broken" immigration system. They did so in an especially dishonest way:

As we noted in our previous article, the bottom photo doesn't feature Brampton area Sikhs, nor does it depict Sikhs even living in Canada:

It might be important to note that Immigration Watch Canada couldn't even be bothered to include a picture of the Sikh community in Brampton that they are attacking. The photo, featuring Babu Singh Dukhiya, are of Indian nationals in India. None of them, so far as we can tell, are Canadian citiizens. Actual depictions of Sikh Canadians who have seamlessly integrated into Canadian society, such as the man in the photograph below donating blood at a Canadian Blood Service clinic and the the city councillor attending the opening of a new hospital, sort of doesn't fit with the nightmarish dystopian future they want people to envision as a result of immigration.

The phrase, "mainstream Canadians" is found on the poster and is echoed in the first paragraph of IWC website, though the word "population" replaces "Canadians" in this case:

Immigration Watch Canada is an organization of Canadians who believe that immigration has to serve the interests of its own citizens. It cannot be turned into a social assistance / job-finding program for people from other countries. It should never be a social engineering experiment that is conducted on Canada’s mainstream population in order to make it a minority.

Though they are attempting to present themselves as a group of citizens concerned about the levels of immigration to Canada, they reveal their cards pretty early in that "mainstream Canadian" = white/European Canadian.

This past Monday, IWC held a protest in front of the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Chris Alexander's constituency office in Ajax, Ontario. The numbers were small and the message rather convoluted:

Sunday, August 24, 2014

It really is funny how things can turn on a dime. As early as August 18, Brodie Walsh was a member in good standing of the Southern Ontario "Skinheads," posing with his fellow boneheads as they model their latest t-shirts:

How come so many bonehead think that vacantly staring ata camera is intimidating?

Oh, those were among the salad days of the SOS, a time when they were hopeful, naive, and ready to change the world. Or get drunk and beat up random people of color and excuse it as revolutionary activism. Either way, right?

The reality is the SOS were, and still are, comprised of a bunch of ex cons and general fuck-ups so it isn't exactly a surprise that they would continue to fuck up. We have, however, been enjoying the very public nature of the implosion.

Our readers will have noticed that Max "Come At Me Bro!" Hynes posted the following two comments under the article in question:

brodie is out of the S.O.S, i fucking hate race traitors. i can deal with prior drug convictions but this is way over the line. That fucking piece of trash is out! He talked so much shit about how he was done with that life but i guess you can only go so far. that fucking goof is outof S.O.S!!!! brodie walsh is so stripped its not even funny!!

No Max, it is actually very funny.

The action wasn't confined to our little corner of the Interweb however. Walsh posted a comment on Facebook complaining about the article which he soon removed for what we think our readers will determine is an understandable reason:

Friday, August 22, 2014

While we will provide a much more detailed article regarding the Southern Ontario "Skinhead" backlash to our previous post on Brodie Walsh's.... uhm.... indiscretion, we thought that for now this clip from the classic movie, "Airplane!" should suffice as a teaser since it best captures the subtle nuances of their reaction:

More to come later, though we would like to teach "pure German" Jeremy Crawford a new word first.

Schadenfreude: (noun) Pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune.

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Okay, that might be selling it a little too much. They are, after all, boneheads.

Be that as it may, we recently received some interesting photos taken in a public place of one Southern Ontario "Skinhead" member in what would constitute an awkward situation. Well, awkward if you're a bonehead.

We have to confirm things, but if it is who we are 99.99% certain that it is, take a look at our update tomorrow.

Friday, August 15, 2014

A few days ago we published an article regarding former Edmund Burke Society member Jeff Goodall and his efforts to win a council seat in the upcoming Oshawa civic election. Former Nazi leader John Beattie, who is running for the position of deputy reeve in Minden, ON, really couldn't contain his glee. Aside from the fact that he continues to believe we are the ARA, Beattie doesn't seem to think that our coverage will result in an increase in Goodall's overall vote. While we sincerely doubt that to be the case, we're sure that our focus on Goodall did result in at least one Oshawa resident taking notice:

Hey, if you are comfortable with an endorsement from the Goudreau, have at 'er.

But it seems that Beattie might have counted his chickens a little bit. Not long after we published our Goodall article, Beattie posted a link to it on his Facebook profile giddy with excitement. That post in no longer found anywhere on his profile.

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Late last month we posted an article on an apparent assault during Ford Fest. Ron Banerjee, who has been featured on this blog as a result of his virulent Islamaphobia, is seen in a video with his hands around the throat of a protester at the event. Prior to this incident, Banerjee was caught on camera shouting at a group of LBGTQ protesters:

Go home faggots! Go fuck your…. Go suck a dick faggots!

Banergee can be heard saying the above homophobic slur in this video at 5:17.

Given the language used and the fact the protester Banerjee physically accosted was wearing a rainbow flag as a cape (though he himself was not gay), the incident could be reasonably viewed as being motivated by hatred towards LBGTQ people.

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

It would appear that McKee's Blood & Honour and Hynes' Southern Ontario "Skinheads" have decided to continue their little spat on our blog. Truth be told, we are more than pleased to facilitate their intellectual jousting, though referring to the bluff and bluster as "intellectual" might be to stretch the meaning of the word:

Ah, Max's "crew." On that note, it seems that our previous article in the "stooges" series featuring one of the latest recruits to Max's "crew" has turned out to be quite popular. And one of those who has taken notice is our superfan Tomasz "Still Lives in Mommy's Basement" Winnicki.

Winnicki and Hynes in fact know each other. Both were in attendance at a Pauli anti-immigrant protest back in 2010....

....and Winnicki attended the ill-fated White Pride march organized by Hynes back in 2012. So one might think that because of their ideological views and the fact they both live in the same city that perhaps Hynes and Winnicki support each other.

Friday, August 08, 2014

While
many well-intentioned people are concerned about both racism and misogyny, not
all are aware that the two are frequently connected. It’s noteworthy that
many racists, particularly white supremacists such as Ontario’s shame, Tomasz
Winnicki, also display misogynistic traits. As documented previously,
Winnicki’s comments about women’s “place” in the world are as disturbing as his
white supremacist screeds. It’s not just Winnicki, of course. Despite two
centuries of real progress, both racism and misogyny still weave an ugly thread
throughout all aspects of modern life. Though arguably under control in the workplace,
at least in developed nations such as Canada and the U.S., misogyny and racism
pop up in sometimes shocking, newsworthy ways in politics, education, the
entertainment world, and of course sports.

In the U.S. in spring of 2014, for instance, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald
Sterling was taken to task for a blatantly racist remark he made to his
(now-ex) girlfriend. But as
one observer pointed out on the Thinkprogress.org site, the event was not
unique in the sports world, and racism wasn’t the only issue. Wrote Travis
Waldron in April 2014, “That’s not to say the racism present in Sterling’s
words and history should take a backseat to the sexism that’s there too. But
both issues need to be addressed, because the structural problems that allowed
Racist Donald Sterling to remain in power aren’t much different from the forces
that helped Sexist Donald Sterling stay there too…” Of course Canadian sports
are not immune to sexism either, as
the Don Cherry incident showed in 2013.

1.An exaggerated fear of “the other.” In
her classic book The Second Sex,
Simone de Beauvoir framed sexism as men’s objectification of women, their definition
of women as “the other.” She
argued that the very concept of “woman” is a male construct: “woman is always
‘other’ because the male is the ‘seer’: he is the subject and she the object.”
In other words, men are the default gender – “the” sex – and women are “the
other” sex. Racism works in much the same way; in the eyes of racists, everyone
who doesn’t belong to their race is “the other.” To some extent all humans have
a fear or mistrust of those who are “different” in some way. In racist/sexists,
however, the fear is greatly exaggerated for a variety of reasons, some of
which have to do with innate personality traits (see next item) and some of
which are related to family, religious, cultural, or historical influences.

2.Belief in authoritarianism and
hierarchies. According to
a 2011 study at the University of the Basque Country in Spain that found a
personality link between sexism and racism, sexist/racist people are those who
are more likely than most people to approve of strict hierarchies. Study
researcher and psychologist Maite Garaigordobil said, “Sexism is linked to
authoritarianism and a leaning towards social dominance. In other words, sexist
people accept hierarchies and social inequality…they believe that different
social groups have a status that they deserve, and they feel that the social
class to which they belong is the best.”

3.Distorted self-image. One
might be tempted to assume that racists/sexists display obvious signs of low
self-esteem, since low-self esteem can cause people to act more aggressively
and to attempt or at least desire dominance. But the Spanish study cited above
found almost no relationship between obvious low self-esteem and
anti-egalitarian attitudes. Even so, their type of sexism did influence how the
sexist people saw themselves, the
researchers reported. Study researcher Garaigordobil said, “Men with higher
levels of hostile sexism describe themselves using adjectives associated with
masculinity, i.e. physically strong, brave, sure of themselves, determined,
admirable, etc. Women who display hostile sexism described themselves using
characteristics that go against femininity, such as not very cooperative, not
very tolerant, not very compassionate and not very sensitive or sentimental.”
For the purpose of the study, “hostile sexism” was defined as a dislike of
women, whereas benevolent sexism described the view that women are weak and in
need of male protection. Study subjects of both genders who scored highly in
benevolent sexism described themselves using adjectives associated with
femininity, such as “warm” or “friendly.” The point is that even though the
misogynists of both genders (and yes, there are female misogynists) didn’t seem
– at least on the surface – to have low self-esteem, nevertheless they almost
certainly harbored a distorted self-image. One has to wonder how these sexist
subjects’ friends and colleagues viewed them, but apparently that wasn’t part
of the Spanish study.

If racists are often sexists, conversely many (though not all) people who have
historically fought against racism
have also been feminists. The abolitionist movement of the nineteenth century
gave rise to the first wave of feminism, which focused on basic issues such as
women’s right to vote. And in the mid twentieth century the civil rights
movement helped spawn the so-called second wave of feminism, which fostered
major progress in gender equality.

Unfortunately there will probably always be individuals and organized groups
who harbor an irrational hatred for a given group of people – non-whites,
women, LGBT people, or people of a given religious faith. But as long as there
are those who battle such hatred, there is hope for human progress.

Author:

Daphne Holmes contributed this guest
post. She is a writer from www.ArrestRecords.com
and you can reach her at daphneholmes9@gmail.com.

Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Ugh. We should have known that Bob Smith, another of Don Andrews' Android followers and a perennial candidate himself, would be running in the Toronto municipal election. Smith is running on Ward 31 on an explicitly racist platform which, no doubt, will be wildly successful in a multiethnic and relatively progressive city like Toronto. But being the selfless fella that he is, he also gives a shout-out to his fellow racist candidates:

Normally, one would think such a characterization as a "racist candidate" would be a label that said candidate would vigorously reject. It's sort of the kiss of death in electoral politics.

But then there's John Beattie who apparently believes that any publicity (including that provided by us) is good publicity:

Come this September, he might not feel the same way.

We leave our readers to ponder this last statement while looking at photos of John Beattie leading members of the Canadian Nazi Party in a march in Allen Gardens, an organization he now claims never existed.

Sunday, August 03, 2014

You know, there are times when we have to wonder what good karma we have amassed for fortune to fall into our laps.

Ladies and gentlemen, might we introduce you to the newest member of the Southern Ontario "Skinheads", Jeremy Crawford:

We should at this point provide a little background. Crawford actually contacted us in May thinking that either we were the SOS or that we could hook him up with the SOS:

my name is jeremy crawford when u here the name u say skinhead thats feared and well respected im friends with brodie walsh anyways i lead small skinhead groups in london and sarnia ive been through thick and thin being a skinhead but i always come out on top because were more intelligent than the others[emphasis ours] i want in im 32 and i want in i want a group to call my family that i can trust with my life im 220 pds and covered in white power tattooes covered. im the poster child for skinheads im purebred german blonde hair blue eyes etc please get back to me. WPWW

and

Jeremy Crawford 32 220 pds pure german and life long skinhead i want in i have ran little clicks and iam well respected i want in the southren ont skins get back to me at ************@hotmail.com or ************@gmail.com get ahold of me please i would be an incredible asset to the group and i know brodie walsh

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